It seems it may become increasingly clearer as to why Adam Lanza, a troubled 20 year old Newton, CT resident yesterday went on a deadly shooting spree that claimed not only his own life (at his own hands) but that of his mother, Nancy as well as 20 children between the ages of 5-10 as well as that of 4 school teachers, 3 of which he had loud and vociferous arguments the day before the brutal attack.

nbc: The motive for the mass killing was unknown, but officials told NBC’s Pete Williams that they were investigating whether Lanza is the person who had an “altercation” with four staff members at the school on Thursday.

Three of the four were killed Friday in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. The fourth staff member was not at school that day and is being interviewed by federal and state investigators, Williams said.

Authorities have finished the heart-wrenching task of identifying the dead and said they would soon release the names.

The surviving staff member’s testimony might be an ‘important piece of information’ for discerning motive in this case, go on to report NBC.

While initial reports had suggested Lanza was buzzed into the building – bypassing the newly-installed security system – police have confirmed that the shooter forced his way in.

Interestingly who was also killed were was the school’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung who along with another teacher, School psychologist Mary Sherlach who had rushed to see what the commotion was after gunfire erupted were gunned down ‘execution’ style. It would certainly imply that Lanza had a real beef with the school (and even with Hochsprung herself as she has now been confirmed to have been one of those involved in the Thursday’s altercation including another deceased teacher Victoria Soto) although to date authorities have not expressed the nature or how that conflict may have originated.

Although authorities have yet to still publicly release a motive for Friday’s attack they have claimed to have come across evidence that has shed considerable more light to the case, evidence which to date they have publicly declined to offer.

ctpost: Asked at a news conference whether Lanza had left any emails or other writings that might explain the rampage, state police Lt. Paul Vance said investigators had found “very good evidence” and hoped it would answer questions about the gunman’s motives. Vance would not elaborate.

Police said their investigation into Lanza and how he carried out the horrendous crime was still in the early stages.

“We have a mountain of evidence, both physical and forensic,” Newtown Police Lt. George Sinko said. “Obviously we’re not going to leave any stone unturned.”

Sinko went on to say that the entire town of 27,000 – a sleepy bedroom community some 60 miles from New York City and known for its good schools – was reeling.

“We never thought this would happen here. Our hearts are broken for the families of these victims.”

School psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56, was shot dead by Adam Lanza while trying to save her studentsConnecticut State Police Lieutenant Paul Vance

31 COMMENTS

so wheres the footage of this apparent shooting like at columbine va tech and so fourth i want proof that this happened not just what people say i wanna just see him bust into the school than ill be convinced because adam was said to be dead a day before the shooting occured public records confirm that

They didn’t make a difference at columbine, why would they make a difference now?

Who’s going to pay for a few armed staff in every school? What kind of quality of ‘armed staff’ can be afforded? There’s about 100,000 public schools in the US: So we’re going to pay for 3 full time trained and armed staff per school at 40,000 per year? 120,000/year x 100,000 schools = 12 billion a year in salary alone, never mind training, supplies, support infrastructure, weapons, pensions, benefits, etc.

Wow.. Looks like females control everything: The home, the schools, daycare, etc.. Hey Schools, might want to think about having MORE MEN around who can instill discipline in children at a YOUNG age so they grow up fearing God and fearing Authority. Adam had NO fear. THAT is the problem. These kids today having females as ‘dads’ ISN’T WORKING. We might not be able to fix the home but we can put more MEN in the schools to balance out the world that children have around them.

A total heartbreaking,senseless rampage. At least he killed his mom who seemed to ignore this mental case and train him how to shoot and give acces to firearms. One look at that kid and anyone can see he was a strange,odd looking mental case. Why didn’t he just do himself in?

Those kids might not have died if there was at least one staff member there that day who was trained, authorized and carrying a concealed weapon. Then, rather than cowering in miserable, pathetic, pants-pissing fear and shame while their colleagues and students were blown away, begging for their lives, that armed individual could’ve done what they’d been trained and authorized to do: use their legally-purchased, registered weapon to terminate a deadly threat.

But nope, instead a shooter pushed his way into a known “gun free” zone and shot the hell outta the place w/o any fear of being shot himself – except by his own hand.

The saddest thing here, is that law abiding citizens will give up their legal firearms in exchange for NOTHING from the government. No promises of increased law and order, stiffer penalties or swifter executions of unquestionably guilty perps, or greater guarantees of protection for private property. You will give up one aspect of personal sovreignity – the right to defend yourself and your property – for a promise of nothing in return.

We should at least demand that violent movies, television shows and video games be outlawed BEFORE we agree to reverse the 2nd Amendment. Demand that the culture of violence we LOVE be eradicated. Demand a return to decency standards and prohibitions for the media industry. Because, after all, what’s one freedom over another, if they’re both expendable? Demand these things, and watch with glee how the Left will react to it.